Problems with my main PC, hoping the community could give me some guidance.
First the specs:
AMD Phenom II 965 @ stock 3.4
4GB DDR3 RAM
128GB Corsair SSD for OS drive
500GB Samsung HDD for programs
Gigabyte HD6950 video
I started having some performance problems recently, and suspected by motherboard (small leak in my water loop went undetected long enough to corrode a couple of pins but that's another story). That board was the MSI 890FXA-GD70. At the time the system would either not boot at all (it would hang just after POST) or at best it would get to the lovely Windows symbol and stop there).
I swapped all my parts over to a new Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 board and problems got worse. While it is functional, it runs like it's in quicksand. When I click the Windows icon to bring up the Start menu it will sometimes take 5 seconds or more to respond. Double-clicking the Control Panel or Computer icon on the desktop is the same story, response time varies from instant (rare) to 10 seconds.
When I do finally get a window open (in My Computer for example), when I open a folder it will also hang and actually read "not responding" at the top. So far it has always eventually responded, but it's ludicrously slow.
I thought it might be a driver/software conflict from the motherboard swap (I never cleaned or removed anything before installing the new motherboard drivers), so I wiped the SSD and did a clean reinstall of Win7 Ultimate 64-bit OS, no change at all.
So this new problem is better than the old one, in that I can at least use the system but I can't use it like this.
Any ideas would be great as I have never seen a problem like this one. Hopefully someone else here in The Collective has.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I remembered I had some different RAM and tried that also. Went from 4GB of Corsair to 16GB of Kingston, in different configurations in different RAM slots with each type, both single and multiple, no change at all. $#(&*&(*!!!